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| 7131597022 | Paleolithic Period | Of or relating to the cultural period of the Stone Age |  | 0 |
| 7131600534 | Specialization of labor | Specialization of labor allowed companies to produce more goods and increase each workers ability. |  | 1 |
| 7131606700 | Artisans | A worker in a skilled trade, especially one that involves making things by hand. |  | 2 |
| 7131607732 | Clan | A clan is a group of people united by actual or perceived kinship and descent. |  | 3 |
| 7131611016 | Textiles | A type of cloth or woven fabric. |  | 4 |
| 7131612794 | Neolithic revolution | The Neolithic revolution was the transition of many human cultures from a lifestyle of hunting and gathering to one of agriculture and settlement. |  | 5 |
| 7131616349 | Hunter-forager | A hunter-gatherer is a human living in a society in which most or all food is obtained by foraging |  | 6 |
| 7131617763 | merchants | a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries |  | 7 |
| 7131620722 | tribe | a social division in a traditional society consisting of families or communities linked by social, economic, religious, or blood ties, with a common culture and dialect, typically having a recognized leader. |  | 8 |
| 7131621543 | Jericho | Jericho is a city in the Palestinian Territories and is located near the Jordan River in the West Bank |  | 9 |
| 7131622579 | monotheism | belief in only one god |  | 10 |
| 7131623769 | nomadic pastoralism | Nomadic pastoralism is a form of pastoralism when livestock are herded in order to find fresh pastures on which to graze |  | 11 |
| 7131626024 | Social stratification | Social stratification is a society's categorization of people into socioeconomic strata, based upon their occupation and income, wealth and social status, or derived power (social and political). |  | 12 |
| 7131628000 | artifacts | an object made by a human being, typically an item of cultural or historical interest. |  | 13 |
| 7131630014 | Catal Huyuk | a 32-acre Neolithic site in south-central Turkey |  | 14 |
| 7131632100 | bronze age | a period in the history of humankind, following the Stone Age and preceding the Iron Age, during which bronze weapons and implements were used. |  | 15 |
| 7131633215 | patriarchal | of or relating to a patriarch, the male head of a family, tribe, community, church, order, etc. |  | 16 |
| 7131636040 | kinship group | a family, clan, or other group based on kinship. |  | 17 |
| 7131637133 | Homo sapiens sapiens | Homo sapiens sapiens. Homo sapiens is the binomial nomenclature for the only extant human species |  | 18 |
| 7131639417 | Overfarming | To farm too much |  | 19 |
| 7131640571 | Overgrazing | graze (grassland) so heavily that the vegetation is damaged and the ground becomes liable to erosion |  | 20 |
| 7131644607 | desertification | the process by which fertile land becomes desert, typically as a result of drought, deforestation, or inappropriate agriculture |  | 21 |
| 7131645460 | division of labor | the assignment of different parts of a manufacturing process or task to different people in order to improve efficiency. |  | 22 |
| 7131646274 | theocrats | a person who rules, governs as a representative of God or a deity, or is a member of the ruling group in a theocracy, as a divine king or a high priest |  | 23 |
| 7131647124 | Indo-European | a large, widespread family of languages, the surviving branches of which include Italic, Slavic, Baltic, Hellenic, Celtic, Germanic, and Indo-Iranian, |  | 24 |
| 7131648740 | feudalism | the feudal system, or its principles and practices. |  | 25 |
| 7131651591 | environmental degradation | Environmental degradation is the deterioration of the environment through depletion of resources such as air, water and soil |  | 26 |
| 7131653969 | barter | exchange (goods or services) for other goods or services without using money. |  | 27 |
| 7131656216 | Golden Age | the period when a specified art, skill, or activity is at its peak |  | 28 |
| 7131657976 | papyrus | a material prepared in ancient Egypt from the pithy stem of a water plant, used in sheets throughout the ancient Mediterranean world for writing or painting on and also for making rope, sandals, and boats |  | 29 |
| 7131660742 | Mandate of Heaven | The Zhou created the Mandate of Heaven: the idea that there could be only one legitimate ruler of China at a time, and that this ruler had the blessing of the gods |  | 30 |
| 7131661846 | deforestation | Deforestation, clearance or clearing is the removal of a forest or stand of trees where the land is thereafter converted to a non-forest use |  | 31 |
| 7131663140 | polytheistic | belief in more than one or many gods |  | 32 |
| 7131664629 | ancestor veneration | The veneration of the dead, including one's ancestors, is based on love and respect for the deceased |  | 33 |
| 7131665510 | alphabetic script | a method of representing the sounds of a language by written or printed symbols |  | 34 |
| 7131667618 | empire | an extensive group of states or countries under a single supreme authority, formerly especially an emperor or empress |  | 35 |
| 7131668794 | loess | a loosely compacted yellowish-gray deposit of windblown sediment of which extensive deposits occur, e.g., in eastern China and the American Midwest |  | 36 |
| 7131669777 | ziggurats | Ziggurats were a form of temple common to the Sumerians, Babylonians and Assyrians of ancient Mesopotamia |  | 37 |
| 7131670257 | cuneiform | Image result for cuneiform Cuneiform is a system of writing first developed by the ancient Sumerians of Mesopotamia c. 3500-3000 BCE |  | 38 |
| 7131672448 | Sanskrit | an ancient Indic language of India, in which the Hindu scriptures and classical Indian epic poems are written and from which many northern Indian languages are derived |  | 39 |
| 7131673207 | city-states | a city that with its surrounding territory forms an independent state |  | 40 |
| 7131675039 | Royal road | The Royal Road was an ancient highway reorganized and rebuilt by the Persian king Darius the Great |  | 41 |
| 7131675367 | syncretic | Syncretism is a union or attempted fusion of different religions, cultures, or philosophies |  | 42 |
| 7131676554 | aristocracy | the highest class in certain societies, especially those holding hereditary titles or offices |  | 43 |
| 7131678405 | direct democracy | Direct democracy is a form of democracy in which people decide policy initiatives directly. |  | 44 |
| 7131681611 | hoplites | a heavily armed foot soldier of ancient Greece. |  | 45 |
| 7131682028 | aristocrats | a member of the aristocracy |  | 46 |
| 7131682880 | Socratic Method | The socratic method is a form of cooperative argumentative dialogue between individuals, based on asking and answering questions to stimulate critical thinking and to draw out ideas and underlying presumptions |  | 47 |
| 7131683935 | Zoroastrianism | Zoroastrianism is one of the world's oldest monotheistic religions. It was founded by the Prophet Zoroaster in ancient Iran approximately 3500 years ago |  | 48 |
| 7131685146 | oligarchy | a small group of people having control of a country, organization, or institution |  | 49 |
| 7131685728 | representative democracy | representative democracy is a type of democracy founded on the principle of elected officials representing a group of people, as opposed to direct democracy |  | 50 |
| 7131687773 | archons | each of the nine chief magistrates in ancient Athens |  | 51 |
| 7131688425 | merchants | a person or company involved in wholesale trade, especially one dealing with foreign countries |  | 52 |
| 7131690361 | Golden Mean | the ideal moderate position between two extremes |  | 53 |
| 7131691193 | qanat | (in the Middle East) a gently sloping underground channel or tunnel constructed to lead water from the interior of a hill to a village below |  | 54 |
| 7131691840 | tyrants | a cruel and oppressive ruler. |  | 55 |
| 7131692372 | Persian Wars | The wars fought between Greece and Persia in the 5th century BC, in which the Persians sought to extend their territory over the Greek world |  | 56 |
| 7131701650 | helots | a member of a class of serfs in ancient Sparta, intermediate in status between slaves and citizens |  | 57 |
| 7131703605 | caravanserai | an inn with a central courtyard for travelers in the desert regions of Asia or North Africa |  | 58 |
| 7131706546 | hieroglyphics | a stylized picture of an object representing a word, syllable, or sound, as found in ancient Egyptian and other writing systems. |  | 59 |
| 7131707637 | Caracol | Caracol is the name given to a large ancient Maya archaeological site, located in what is now the Cayo District of Belize. |  | 60 |
| 7131708915 | Teotihuacan | Teotihuacan is a vast Mexican archaeological complex northeast of Mexico City. |  | 61 |
| 7131711080 | ayllus | Ayllu is the traditional form of a community in the Andes, especially among Quechuas and Aymaras. They are an indigenous local government model across the Andes region of South America, particularly in Bolivia and Peru. |  | 62 |
| 7131712757 | Classic Period | The Classic period (250 CE to 900 CE) is considered the height of the Maya civilization, characterized by great accomplishments like distinctive writing and calendric systems polychrome ceramics corbelled vault architecture major public architecture with pyramids, palaces, ball courts |  | 63 |
| 7131714865 | Chichen Itza | Chichén Itzá is a world-famous complex of Mayan ruins on Mexico's Yucatán Peninsula. |  | 64 |
| 7131715815 | Olmec | The Olmecs were the first major civilization in Guatemala and Mexico following a progressive development in Soconusco and modern southwestern pacific lowlands of Guatemala. They lived in the tropical lowlands of south-central Mexico, in the present-day states of Veracruz and Tabasco. |  | 65 |
| 7131716268 | Moche | a pre-Inca culture that flourished on the northern coast of Peru in the 1st to 7th centuries AD. |  | 66 |
| 7131716949 | Mesoamerica | Mesoamerica was a region and cultural area in the Americas, extending up there approximately from central Mexico to Belize, Guatemala, El Salvador, Honduras, Nicaragua, and northern Costa Rica, within which pre-Columbian societies flourished before the Spanish colonization of the Americas in the 15th and 16th centuries. |  | 67 |
| 7131717811 | Obsidian | Obsidian is a naturally occurring volcanic glass formed as an extrusive igneous rock. |  | 68 |
| 7131718850 | Mayan | Mayan most commonly refers to Mayan people, various indigenous peoples of Mesoamerica and northern Central America |  | 69 |
| 7131704388 | empiricism | the theory that all knowledge is derived from sense-experience |  | 70 |
| 7131714873 | Slash-and-burn agriculture | Slash-and-burn agriculture, or fire-fallow cultivation, is a farming method that involves the cutting and burning of plants in a forest or woodland to create a field called a swidden |  | 71 |
| 7131707115 | democracy | a system of government by the whole population or all the eligible members of a state, typically through elected representatives |  | 72 |
| 7131707833 | satraps | a provincial governor in the ancient Persian empire |  | 73 |
| 7131708554 | Common currency | When two or more groups (usually countries) share a common currency or decide to peg their exchange rates in order to keep the value of their currency at a certain level |  | 74 |
| 7131717740 | huaca del sol | Definition: The Huaca del Sol is an enormous adobe (mud brick) Moche civilization pyramid, built in at least eight different stages between AD 0-600 at the site of Cerro Blanco in the Moche Valley of the northern coast of Peru |  | 75 |
| 7131707542 | Hellenistic Period | The Hellenistic period covers the period of ancient Greek (Hellenic) history and Mediterranean history between the death of Alexander the Great in 323 BC and the emergence of the Roman Empire |  | 76 |
| 7131705345 | monarchies | a form of government with a monarch at the head. |  | 77 |
| 7131716873 | Huaca del Luna | Image result for huaca del luna definition Huaca de la Luna. Huaca de la Luna, or Temple of the Moon, was part of the ancient Moche capital |  | 78 |
| 7131716107 | Maya | the power by which the universe becomes manifest; the illusion or appearance of the phenomenal world |  | 79 |
| 7131713746 | Mother civilization | A civilization is a culture that has developed a form of government, religion. and learning |  | 80 |
| 7131700485 | tribute | payment made periodically by one state or ruler to another, especially as a sign of dependence. |  | 81 |
